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, UNITED STATES STEPHEN MEERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 293,054, dated February 5, 1884.

Application filed July 26, 1883. (No model.)

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This invention is especially adapted to albums for receiving and displaying photographic pictures; and it consists in the improved construction which will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of one of the leaves of an album containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a crosssection thereof.

Similarletters indicate correspondingparts.

The letter A designates the body of the leaf, composed of two sheets, B, of paper, having the usual openings, 0, in the center. The edges of these openings .0 are embossed, as at D, in such a manner that the paper is raised at those places, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2, forming spaces or pockets, into which the picture may be inserted through the usual slit, 8, in the ordinary manner, without danger of tear ing the sheets. I prefer to extend the embossing of the lower edge of the sheet-openings 0 below the line of the slit 8, so that when the picture has been put in place its lower edge may drop below the slit.

In order to" avoid defacing or obliterating the embossed edges D of the sheet-openings by the pressure of the leaves when the book is closed, I unite to the sheets B, on their inner edges, the usual folded strip, E, to form a hinge-joint to the leaf, and arrange in the fold thereof a filling-piece, 0, of straw-board or other suitable material, whereby the leaf is rendered of the same thickness on the inner edge as where it is embossed; but, if desired, this filling-piece may be omitted, or the folded strip may be omitted and the filling-piece placed between the sheets at the proper place. 5

I also arrange between the sheets B, at the "base of the embossed edges D, a filling-piece,\

i, of cord or other suitable material, to permanently raise such edges, this filling-piece being put in place before the sheets are united,

and being held by glue or some other adhesive picture, .thus dispensing with a pasteboard filling., Such,theref0re, I do'ifotbroadlycl'aimf What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An album the leaves ofv which are each composed of two sheets of paper having openings, the edges of which openings are embossed and thereby raised to create a pocket for receiving the picture, substantially as described.

2. An album the leaves of which are composed of the two sheets of paper having openings provided with embossed edges, in combination with the folded strip united to the. inner edges of the sheets, and the filling-piece arranged in such strip, as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

3. An album the leaves of which are composed of the two sheets of paper having openings provided with embossed edges, in combination with the filling-piece arranged between the sheets at the base of the embossed edges, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereuntoset my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

STEPHEN MEEBS. Witnesses:

CHAS. WAHLnRs,

E. F. KAsrmvHUBER. 

